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Without any proper training, we're setting a lot of employees up for frustration when they don't have the resources they need to perform their jobs. In home care there's about a 100,000-person administrative workforce that gets very little training, and with every scheduler that you lose, you would lose approximately five or ten caregivers.

President and COO of Home Care Pulse, Todd Austin, dives deep into the conversation about attracting and retaining employees with his top tips he’d give an agency looking to get the most out of their training program.

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Michelle Pickering, Executive Director of IDEAL, shares how IDEAL is striving to eliminate obstacles organizations and women face in the healthcare industry and solutions for how agencies and providers can create opportunities for women to stay in the healthcare industry and promote upward mobility and visibility.

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A lot of home care leaders are suffering from what April Hansen calls “decision drowning syndrome,” which is when the volume of decisions to be made is so huge, people's capacity to make decisions dwindles. 

How can home care businesses prevent decision drowning and move forward on executing decisions efficiently to achieve hyper-growth?

April Hansen, a nurse, a tech entrepreneur, and a hyper growth business executive, successfully achieved hyper-growth by 900% in two years and increased employee engagement through a very thorough decision making framework.

In this episode, learn about April’s decision making framework and how it can improve your business’s decision making processes to eliminate stalemates or decision drowning that are preventing growth.

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Discover tips on how to ensure regulatory compliance, maximize success for home care owners, and achieve optimal quality of life for all. Podcast guest Candyce Slusher is an experienced Nurse and Home Care Consultant who has helped many home care owners grow their business, create a work-life balance and develop sustainable growth in homecare. Tune in to this episode to learn how to establish a culture of self-agency, accountability, and simplify workflow systems for maximum efficiency.

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In 2023, opportunities will emerge in home-base care that could mark success for years to come. How can care providers take advantage of these opportunities? 

In this episode, AlayaCare’s CEO and Founder, Adrian Schauer takes a deep dive into 5 predictions for home-based care in 2023. Adrian will explain how organizations can apply these predictions and observations to realize new opportunities for growth in a rapidly evolving industry. 

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As we enter 2023, it is an opportunity to consider a different approach to prevent caregiver burnout.  The “solution” has historically been vaguely addressed as an individual responsibility rather than an organizational or systemic problem.

In this episode we welcomed RN Clinical Educator and Nurse Consultant, Lourdes Wiley, from Amity Healthcare Group LLC, who discussed ways home care agencies could shift the focus to healing the healers so that they, as well as the organizations and patients/clients they serve, can thrive collectively.

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Training home care agency care workers fast and well is the key to delivering the care we would want our loved ones to receive. We sat down with caregiver education and training experts from one of our partners, Nevvon, Allan Levine (SVP of Growth and Revenue) and James Cohen (CEO), to talk about how agencies can enhance their business through efficient caregiver training. Listen to learn about the tips and tricks on how to get the most out of your caregiver training program.

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With a healthy dose of inspiration, as we approach the end of 2022, we welcomed who we’d put in the running for “most interesting man in home care”, Jeff Salter founder and CEO of Caring Senior Service.

Last year, Jeff launched a nonprofit foundation called “Close the Gap in Senior Care” to bring awareness to overlooked aspects of senior care. To kick-start fundraising Jeff rode his electric bicycle over 9,400 miles and raised over $100,000. Listen to learn more about Jeff’s inspiring story and how it caused a US national conversion around senior care.

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Growth is a top priority among home care providers, even during difficult economic times. Providers are making significant strides in positioning home-based care as an essential component of the broader health care continuum, but there still is a way to go. 

On Oct 4th, 2022, Home Health Care News, in partnership with AlayaCare, hosted a webinar: “Growth Strategies for Home Care Agencies”. Moderated by Andrew Donlin, editor at HHCN, this webinar featured AlayaCare experts. Listen to hear more about home-based care growth plans and what strategies are best for home care organizations to continue to grow and be successful in the industry.

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Kevin Mistry, VP of Sales at Caribou, shares how incentive programs can be the key to help caregivers shape their behaviour and help curb the challenge of caregiver recruitment and retention. He discusses how rewarding behaviours with performance-based rewards can lead to bigger outcomes down the line for agencies. “For every dollar you put into a rewards program, you get more productivity than every dollar you put into payroll.”

Listen to learn more about how Caribou has changed the home care industry with performance-based rewards to combat employee recruitment and retention challenges.

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